Automatic Scaling is unavailable for WinForms in .net9

[AlaskanDruid]

Type of issue

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Description

It looks like auto scaling was removed with .Net9 or earlier. Forms renders horrendously in other resolutions.
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Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/desktop/winforms/forms/autoscale?view=netframeworkdesktop-4.8

Content source URL

https://github.com/dotnet/docs-desktop/blob/main/dotnet-desktop-guide/winforms/forms/autoscale.md

Document Version Independent Id

96e75707-9d29-a435-981f-c72ab3818134

Platform Id

f8ee52a9-4357-d487-4c01-bf6ae2a7feaf

Article author

@adegeo

Metadata

• ID: 96e75707-9d29-a435-981f-c72ab3818134
• PlatformId: f8ee52a9-4357-d487-4c01-bf6ae2a7feaf
• Service: dotnet-desktop
• Sub-service: winforms

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[adegeo]

@merriemcgaw What's the story with this? Is it just a .NET Framework feature?

[merriemcgaw]

There are definitely issues with scaling in .NET. This person should really file an issue in our GitHub repo and we'll try to work on it. HDPI is a challenge for WinForms sure.

[adegeo]

@AlaskanDruid It sounds like the feature is still supported and until we track down if there is a bug or a misconfiguration, I can't make any changes to the docs. Please file a bug with the WinForms describing what is happening, provide screenshots and possibly some sample code. https://github.com/dotnet/winforms/

Thanks!